Pony Squishers Not-So-Anonymous - show yourselves!

5 ft 8 and weight....14 stone and my main riding pony is a 13.3hh dales mare! We do endurance

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yes I look wonky here but have MS and have weak legs
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OMG this thread got to 10 pages!?

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....and hopefully into the Top 5!
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Although, do you think Admin will view it as 'too controversial', given the nature of the first few pages...?

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OMG this thread got to 10 pages!?

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....and hopefully into the Top 5!
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Although, do you think Admin will view it as 'too controversial', given the nature of the first few pages...?

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Hope not
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. It's a cracker
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Me 5'4'' Buzz pony 12.2hh Im 8.5 sotne most of the time dress size 8
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Although ive got quite chunky bones :$

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Me 5'4'' Fern 13.1hh Project pony also 8.5stone jumping 3'6'' XC + SJ courses she has no trouble
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Heres some proper pony squishing
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Okay, read 'em all! Now it's me me me
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Fourteen stone (yikes!). Five eight and a tiny bit. Long legs. A short (but wide!) ar$e.

Ride a:

13.2 and a little bit hh Tradtional Cob, who's more than happy for a fast canter or two with me on board
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. Back lady and vets all say I'm not a problem for him;

got well and truly bucked off a 13.1 Welsh Moutain cross (took five goes, but he did it). As he's got rid of nearly every other rider, think it's him rather than a weigt issue lol. I'm using him as a milestone point - I'll ride him again when I'm a stone lighter;

and I positively squish my 16.3hh coat rack of a Dutch Warmblood. You can see her ribs (though the amount of Blue Chip Original going down her throat you shouldn't be able to!). Can't see the saddle flap for thigh!
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. Saddler says with a properly fitted saddle I'm well under what she can carry. And, as she continues to leap around like a loon and manages to pop back up out of ditches she's gone down backwards, I don't think my weight is an issue
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Phew, thanks for that post MrsM, I don't feel too bad now about admitting that my new pony who is coming on Saturday is only 14.1, although he is a hairy cob so will hopefully be well up to carrying my huge weight
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This is me squishing my 14.1 ish mare, I'm 5'6 and weigh 8 stone:

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Maybe thats why she's broken, because I squished her....
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So now she's broken, I've taken to squishing my 13hh 18year section B, but I dont have any evidence to show you!
 
Reading this am feeling slightly better about squishing my welshy... I will hasten to add that I am backing/rebacking and my squishing does not involve any real ridden distances
 
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Phew, thanks for that post MrsM, I don't feel too bad now about admitting that my new pony who is coming on Saturday is only 14.1, although he is a hairy cob so will hopefully be well up to carrying my huge weight
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Don't think it's gonna be a problem hun
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. The Little Cob carries me quite happily, and very often passaging sideways down the road, so not an issue
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I still ride my first pony who is a 13.1hh, 20 yr old Exmoor X. I'm 5ft 1ins and weigh well a bit.......I get really embarresed every time she buggers off with me, which is quite often!
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I guess that makes me an incredibly evil pony squisher too?!
 
Ok i'll come out of the woodwork too! I'm almost 6 ft and F is technically a pony even if he does stand at 15.2. Some say he is an overgrown exmoor but his papers say welsh, honest!
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Not publishing my weight but lets just say vet told us one day what the max weight she would put on him was, (reduced given that he had an old tendon injury) and both his owner and i nearly dropped dead at how much he could carry. When i first rode him i thought i would squash him and tried to talk his owner out of loaning to me (well, i had been used to a 17.2 so the height drop made me get reverse altitude sickness
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) but 3 years later he's all good and happy as larry!

This is me squishing him on a beach (please excuse low resolution)

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my jumping instructor has said a few times "you do know you really need a bigger horse...." followed swiftly by its not your weight at all your just to tall for her !! When i did a Jeanette Brakewell clinic she pretty much said the same thing "about time you bought a horse??" And i have kicked a pole down once when jumping !! oops! i need shorter legs!
I'm 5ft2ish on a 13.1 - when i first bought her i was 10stone and i felt far too heavy on her, i have got down to 8.5stone and feel better on her now. I dont feel big on her for flatwork but jumping it is hard to be totally balanced all the time. But shes not going anywhere!

I do hate seeing over weight people on horses or ponies of any size though. It must be uncomfortable for them.

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I just found some pictures of me [at 5ft3, 9 stone ish] squishing a 12hh pony about 4 years ago!



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Didn't stop him tanking off with me though, he was a strong little sh*t!
 
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OMG ive just realised, please note that pic is NOT me!!!!! i was waiting to go into a dressage test and saw her and had to take a pic!!! lordy...

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How kind of you.
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I'm sure she is really pleased that you are publishing her arse on both your facebook and a horsey internet forum, where she may well be a member. Poor woman. You could have just edited your original post, but then that wouldn't have got the same 'OMFG' response, would it?
 
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How big is she and how big am I?

Reckon I'm too big?

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Well, I'd say she looks about 11.2, and you'd have to be at least 24 stone....but no, I think you're squishing her just right
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How big is she and how big am I?

Reckon I'm too big?

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It's not about how tall you are but how heavy you are - I am a proud memeber of the newly formed clique 'Pony Squishers Not-So-Anonymous'
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Yeh, I get that, but it's only fun when it's not at the expense of someone else's feelings. That woman could be a member here and could see that. She probably won't, but she might.

It is also hurtful for other larger people to see very slim people taking the p in such an outwardly nasty way (I'm talking about your 'good God' comment). I appreciate I have had a sense of humour bypass, but I am a larger rider, like a lot of the people (but not all) on this thread, and am always aware of what slimmer riders actually think of me when I am on my horses. I'm probably being touchy and I don't think my arse spills over the sides of my horse (either of them), anyway.
 
ok well i apologise if i offended anyone, it just fitted cos other people think they're too big for their horses when they're really not! *goes and stands in the corner*
 
hehe well seriously if your that fat you would serously need to lose some weight also due to the fact that youd be so incredibly unfit your horse would therefore be unfit and less muscled in the back so would find it harder. I think it would help that rider to realise to lose wieght if they saw that picture :P Us pony squishers are bit to controversial me thinks
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Lol, don't stand in the corner! I agree she could do with losing some weight as although she may not be any heavier than some men who hunt all day, she is obviously a bit lumpy round the edges.

I would just like to say, though, that I am bigger than for eg, MizElz, and I am very fit. I have great balance and I have never really had any problems. What did cause problems was a few years ago I had pneumonia and after a 5x a week gym and swim habbit, I couldn't do anything for months... even down to leaving the house some days. My fitness was crap and I went all flabby, gained some weight etc, which has been hard to shift. Golly, at one point I could only walk 10 metres before needing to sit down, never mind getting on a horse!

Fatness and fitness don't always necessarily correlate, although I do feel that losing weight is always beneficial in extreme cases.
 
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